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Report on Ushkovsky (Russia) — November 1998


Ushkovsky

Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network, vol. 23, no. 11 (November 1998)
Managing Editor: Richard Wunderman.

Ushkovsky (Russia) Earthquakes form distinctive group

Please cite this report as:

Global Volcanism Program, 1998. Report on Ushkovsky (Russia) (Wunderman, R., ed.). Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network, 23:11. Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.BGVN199811-300261



Ushkovsky

Russia

56.113°N, 160.509°E; summit elev. 3943 m

All times are local (unless otherwise noted)


On the basis of waveform features and locations, earthquakes in the vicinity of the volcano during November were identified as constituting a separate group. Since September 1998 more than 20 events with magnitudes ranging from 0.5 to 1.0 occurred at shallow depths (<5 km).

Geological Summary. The Ushkovsky (formerly known as Plosky) complex is a large compound volcanic massif located at the NW end of the Kliuchevskaya volcano group. The summit of Krestovsky (Blizhny Plosky) volcano, about 10 km NW of Kliuchevskoy, is the high point of the complex. Linear zones of cinder cones are found on the SW and NE flanks and on lowlands to the west. The Ushkovsky (Daljny Plosky) edifice SE of Krestkovsky is capped by an ice-filled 4.5 x 5.5 km caldera containing two glacier-clad cinder cones with large summit craters. A younger caldera at the summit of Daljny was formed in association with the eruption of large lava flows and pyroclastic material from the Lavovy Shish cinder cones at the foot of the volcano about 8,600 years ago. An explosive eruption took place from the summit cone in 1890.

Information Contacts: Olga Chubarova, Kamchatka Volcanic Eruptions Response Team (KVERT), Institute of Volcanic Geology and Geochemistry, Piip Ave. 9, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 683006, Russia; Tom Miller, Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO), a cooperative program of a) U.S. Geological Survey, 4200 University Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508-4667, USA (URL: http://www.avo.alaska.edu/), b) Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, PO Box 757320, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320, USA, and c) Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, 794 University Ave., Suite 200, Fairbanks, AK 99709, USA.